Local groups co-ordinate with OCEARCH and the Discovery Channel's Shark Week 2013

The increase in the number of great white sharks along our shores has attracted national attention including a special week-long series on sharks on the Discovery Channel starting on August 4. The shark frenzy is the best PR Cape Cod has received since last summer's black bear.

Several new local stores have sprung up to satisfy the visiting public's interest in the ocean's top predator, and sharks may be the best thing to happen to the Cape's tourism trade since Thoreau wrote his sunniest and happiest book "Cape Cod".

The event includes participation by the nationally acclaimed marine investigators from OCEARCH and this year a new group, the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy (AWSC), joins the fray.

As previously reported here, Woods Hole Oceanographic (WHOI) Institution scientists will also collaborate with OCEARCH to tag great white sharks and collect shark data off Cape Cod. Beginning July 31, WHOI scientists will collaborate with the non-profit shark research organization OCEARCH on a month-long expedition to tag white sharks and collect valuable blood and tissue samples off the coast of Cape Cod.

Scientists from OCEARCH will kick-off the week's activities on “Expedition Cape Cod" by exploring our waters to help all of us understand this top-of-the-food-chain predator which seems to be moving north as the oceans cool and provide food in the form of our booming seal population.

About the Author »

Walter Brooks (1930-2018) was the Founder of CapeCodToday.com. He was also the founder of Best Read Guide and wrote the Blogfather blog. Walter served as volunteer Managing Editor of Cape Cod Today until the day he died.

CapeCodToday.com welcomes thoughtful comments and the varied opinions of our readers. We are in no way obligated to post or allow comments that our moderators deem inappropriate. We reserve the right to delete comments we perceive as profane, vulgar, threatening, offensive, racially-biased, homophobic, slanderous, hateful or just plain rude. Commenters may not attack or insult other commenters, readers or writers. Commenters who persist in posting inappropriate comments will be banned from commenting on CapeCodToday.com.